Patents Examined by Stephone B. Allen
  • Patent number: 11747639
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a waveplate having a substrate forming an optic. The substrate may have an integral portion forming a plurality of angled columnar features on an exposed surface thereof. The plurality of angled columnar features may further be aligned parallel with a directional plane formed non-parallel to a reference plane, with the reference plane being normal to a surface of the substrate. The metasurface forms a birefringent metasurface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Eyal Feigenbaum, Jeffrey D. Bude, Jean-Michel Di Nicola, Hoang T. Nguyen, Christopher J. Stolz
  • Patent number: 11730359
    Abstract: An optical measurement system and apparatus for carrying out cataract diagnostics in an eye of a patient includes a Corneal Topography Subsystem, a wavefront aberrometer subsystem, and an eye structure imaging subsystem, wherein the subsystems have a shared optical axis, and each subsystem is operatively coupled to the others via a controller. The eye structure imaging subsystem is preferably a fourierdomain optical coherence tomographer, and more preferably, a swept source OCT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Richard J. Copland, Wei Xiong, Paul D. Pulaski, Stephen Farrer, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Daniel Hamrick
  • Patent number: 11733484
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly and an electronic device. The optical imaging lens assembly includes, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a window member; a first lens having a positive refractive power, and an object-side surface of the first lens being a convex surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power; and at least one subsequent lens having a refractive power, wherein an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical imaging lens assembly and half of an effective aperture DTg of the window member at an object-side surface thereof satisfy: EPD/DTg>1.6, which makes the optical imaging lens assembly have the characteristics of high resolution and miniaturization. When the optical imaging lens assembly is installed on an electronic device, it can minimize the impact on the full-screen display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Mengna Tang, Saifeng Lyu, Ling Ding, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11733648
    Abstract: Techniques related to generating holographic images are discussed. Such techniques include application of a hybrid system including a pre-trained deep neural network and a subsequent iterative process using a suitable propagation model to generate diffraction pattern image data for a target holographic image such that the diffraction pattern image data is to generate a holographic image when implemented via a holographic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexey Supikov, Qiong Huang, Anders Grunnet-Jepsen, Paul Winer, Ronald T. Azuma, Ofir Mulla
  • Patent number: 11726247
    Abstract: There is provided a display device exhibiting a good color reproducibility, even when observed through polarized sunglasses. A display device comprises a polarizer a and an optical film X on a surface on a light emitting surface side of a display element, wherein L1, which is the light incident vertically on the optical film X, among light incident on the optical film X from the display element side, satisfies a specific condition, and L2, which is the light emitting vertically from the light emitting surface side of the optical film X, and passing through a polarizer b having the absorption axis parallel to the absorption axis of the polarizer a, satisfies a specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuroda, Yasuhiro Koike
  • Patent number: 11726431
    Abstract: A device for detecting at least one object present in a sample, the device including a light source to emit at least one incident wave at a wavelength ?, a detection volume intended to receive the object, and to receive at least one incident wave, an image sensor positioned to receive at least one scattered light wave obtained by diffraction of the incident wave on the object and a reference wave from the source and not diffracted on the object and to generate a holographic image, and a computer data processing device to digitally reconstruct the object based at least on the holographic image and the wavelength ?. The device also comprises a support comprising patterns organized to form at least one diffraction grating, the grating being periodic and having a pitch P, such that ?/2?P?2?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Christophe Constancias
  • Patent number: 11723420
    Abstract: A protective lens stack comprises a base layer including a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film containing a UV blocking additive and one or more removable lens layers stacked on top of the base layer. Each of the removable lens layers may include a PET film and a first adhesive disposed on a bottom surface of the PET film. Refractive indices of the base layer and the one or more removable lens layers may be matched to within 0.2. Each layer of the protective lens stack, including the base layer and each of the removable lens layer(s), may have less than 0.5% haze. The protective lens stack may be used as a face shield or may be surface mountable using a second adhesive disposed on a bottom surface of the PET film containing the UV blocking additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Racing Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen S. Wilson, Bart E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11719954
    Abstract: A driving control apparatus, a device, an optical module, and a driving control method will be provided, the driving control apparatus including: an acquiring unit to acquire a detection signal depending on a detection result of sensing a position of a driving target object; a driving control unit to generate a driving signal to move the driving target object to a target position based on the detection signal; an oscillation detecting unit to detect oscillation in a signal at a predetermined object point on a signal path from the detection signal to the driving signal; and an oscillation suppressing unit to suppress oscillation of the signal path according to detection of the oscillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Arata Takahashi, Seiichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 11714292
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] There are provided an optical system having good imaging performance, an optical apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the optical system. [Solution] An optical system OL used in an optical apparatus, such as a camera 1, includes a diffractive optical element GD and at least one specific lens Lp, which is a lens made of crystalline glass. The specific lens Lp satisfies the condition expressed by the following expression: ?gFp+0.0017×?dp<0.730, where ?gFp represents partial dispersion ratio of a medium of the specific lens Lp, and ?dp represents the Abbe number of the medium of the specific lens Lp at a d line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Miwa, Hiroshi Yabumoto
  • Patent number: 11714289
    Abstract: A multi-image display apparatus includes a light source configured to emit a first wavelength light, a second wavelength light, and a third wavelength light, a spatial light modulator configured to modulate the first wavelength light, the second wavelength light, and the third wavelength light to form a first image including a first color holographic image, a second color holographic image, and a third color holographic image, a polarization selective lens configured to focus the first image having only a first polarization component and transmit a second image having only a second polarization component without refraction, the second image being provided to the polarization selective lens along a different path from the first image, wherein chromatic aberration of the polarization selective lens is offset by adjusting a depth of the first color holographic image, the second color holographic image, and the third color holographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Changkun Lee, Seokil Moon, Byoungho Lee, Sunil Kim, Bongsu Shin, Hongseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11709362
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical element including, a first step of, after affixing a hologram forming material to a glass substrate having a marking portion, performing interference exposure on the hologram forming material, thereby forming a hologram layer at the glass substrate, and a second step of affixing the hologram layer peeled off from the glass substrate to a plastic substrate having a first alignment mark, wherein in the second step, the first alignment mark on the plastic substrate, and a second alignment mark formed at a position corresponding to the marking portion in the hologram layer during the interference exposure are used to implement positioning of the plastic substrate and the hologram layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Saito, Hiroyuki Tatsugi, Toshiyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11709298
    Abstract: An optical filter includes: an absorption layer including a first near-infrared absorbing dye (D1), a second near-infrared absorbing dye (D2), and a transparent resin; and a reflection layer including a dielectric multilayer film. The dye (D1) and the dye (D2) are squarylium compounds satisfying following (1) to (3). (1) The dye (D1) has a maximum absorption wavelength ?max(D1) within a range of 680 to 730 nm, and the difference between a wavelength at which a transmittance is 80% on the shorter wavelength side than ?max(D1) when the concentration is adjusted such that a transmittance at ?max(D1) is 10%, and ?max(D1) is 100 nm or less. (2) The dye (D2) has a maximum absorption wavelength ?max(D2) within a range of 720 to 770 nm. (3) A value obtained by subtracting ?max(D1) from ?max(D2) is 30 nm or more and 85 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Shiono, Nanako Nishimoto, Sayuri Yamada, Hiroki Hotaka, Satoshi Okada, Keigo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11703798
    Abstract: An optical member utilizing light from a point light source is enabled to visually perceive a reproduced optical image with a desired color. An optical modulation device includes an optical member having a light control part to reflect or absorb light in a predetermined wavelength and to pass through light in other than the predetermined wavelength in light in at least a visible light band, in accordance with a reproduction reference image for reproducing an original image, and a light transmissive part to pass through light in at least the visible light range including the predetermined wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Mitsuru Kitamura, Nobuko Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11703673
    Abstract: A compact microscope including an enclosure, a support element, a primary optical support element located within the enclosure and supported by the support element, at least one vibration isolating mount between the support element and the primary optical support element, a sample stage supported on the primary optical support element to support a sample, a return optical system to receive returned light from a sample and transmit returned light to a detection apparatus, wherein the return optical system is mounted on the primary optical support element, and wherein the compact microscope include a at least one of the following elements; a) an objective lens system, b) a temperature-control system, and c) the return optical system being operable to separate returned light into at least a first wavelength band and a second wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Achillefs Kapanidis, Bo Jing
  • Patent number: 11698507
    Abstract: An optical element includes a hologram layer, a resin substrate to which the hologram layer is adhered, and a holder portion that supports the resin substrate and has a thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the resin substrate. One of the holder portion and the resin substrate includes a contact surface along an axis extending in a plate thickness direction of the resin substrate, and the other of the holder portion and the resin substrate includes a pressing surface that presses the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Saito
  • Patent number: 11693224
    Abstract: An optical adapter for connecting between a beam splitter of a surgical microscope or an ophthalmic slit lamp microscope and a digital camera equipment including mobile phones, tablet computers, cameras, video cameras with image capturing function is provided. The optical adapter includes a lens group located on an optical path and an optical image rotating lens group for adjusting a direction of an optical image on a photosensitive unit of the digital camera equipment. The optical image rotating lens group is configured to be either independently rotatable around optical axis or be set fixedly. Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for real-time adjustment of the direction of an optical image on the photosensitive unit of a digital camera equipment, where regardless of the position of the digital camera a satisfactory direction of the optical image can be obtained with a simple user friendly and convenient structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Zumax Medical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianyue Li, Xiaoguang Yang, Lei Du, Bin Huang, Quanwu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11693255
    Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) display device and a display method thereof are provided. The 3D display device includes a two dimensional (2D) display panel (100) and a slit grating (200) superimposed on the 2D display panel (100). The 2D display panel includes a plurality of subpixels sequentially arranged in a row direction and a column direction; the slit grating includes a plurality of light-transmitting strips (202) and a plurality of light-shielding strips (201) which are parallel to each other and alternately and periodically arranged. An angle formed by a central axis of each of the light-transmitting strips or a central axis of each of the light-shielding strips and the column direction is an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Wei
  • Patent number: 11693214
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an imaging lens assembly. The imaging lens assembly includes, sequentially from an object side to an image side of the imaging lens assembly, a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex object-side surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power and a concave image-side surface; and at least one subsequent lens. At least one of the first lens, the second lens, or the at least one subsequent lens is a glass aspheric lens. A transmittance T1 of the imaging lens assembly corresponding to a wave band 650 nm satisfies: T1>85%, a transmittance T2 of the imaging lens assembly corresponding to a wave band 490 nm satisfies: T2>88%, and a transmittance T3 of the imaging lens assembly corresponding to a wave band 430 nm satisfies: T3>75%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ming Li, Jianke Wenren
  • Patent number: 11686920
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power while having a convex object-side surface, a third lens having positive refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having negative refractive power with a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, and a sixth lens having positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu Min Chae, Sot Eum Seo
  • Patent number: 11681164
    Abstract: An electronic contact lens contains electrical components connected by an electrical interconnect. The electrical interconnect has a flat body, with electrical conductors running length-wise along the body. The flat body is oriented perpendicular rather than parallel to the inner and outer surfaces of the contact lens to reduce a visible profile of the interconnect, reducing the amount of light blocked from entering the eye. The body has a curvature shaped to conform to the curvature of the contact lens. As examples, the interconnect may be connected with an electrical component using a tab perpendicular to the flat body of the interconnect, or by forming an edge connection with electrical contacts of the component located along an edge of the component, or through one or more exposed vias formed on the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Babak Jamshidi, Ben H. Shelef